Planning makes me think

Today I just realized something. Something my wife often complains about me, which is either lack of planning or no planning at all. She did complained about that even before our marriage. I never give it a serious thought until now.

I was told that Planning is probably the most important thing in animation the first time I seriously started learning it from some seasoned pro. And now I look back at some exercises or practices I have done, still, not enough planning.

My 2D animatics stuff was mostly going fine. While I was doing it using flipbook (much under the influence of JRA), I found many more interesting animation ideas rather than my original ideas, which was mostly reflected using some rough storyboard. And one thing I often ignore while I was doing other animation exercise is that I rarely consider how the animation should end. I guess it's mainly because there is essentially no story point in those exercises. But now things are different. Every animation serves as part of the story hence forces me to think more about staging, camera angle as well as how the current shot transits to the next. (although there are not many of them for its simplicity) So I guess yes, I am starting to plan more on almost every aspect. Even this type of planning is by no means adequate, I still gain a better vision and most intriguingly discovered a couple of new ideas along the way.

Happy planning!